Instead I have used a PHP class that allows me to send emails using a remote smtp server using an account on that server. This has been a good solution for my setup anyways. A few days ago a friend of mine was asked to investigate the very same problem for a client.

As it turns out, the solution to their problem was pretty simple - a conflict between the sendmail_from in the php.ini and the "From" passed into the mail function call. A simple ini_set resolved the issue and kept the spam filters from catching and blocking the message.

Here's a link to the first article.

Sometimes it can be useful to have a dump of the current database schema. This script reads the schema from a MySQL database and outputs XML that describes the schema.

And a link to article number two.

So, you want to send automated email messages from your PHP application. This can be in direct response to a user's action, such as signing up for your site, or a recurring event at a set time, such as a monthly newsletter. Sometimes email contains file attachments, both plain text and HTML portions, and so on. To understand how to send each variation that may exist on an email, we will start with the simple example and move to the more complicated.

Welcome to the last tutorial of the series "Sending email with AJAX." As you may have guessed regarding the title, this three-part series explains the development of a fairly simple AJAX-driven email client application, which offers some interesting capabilities for sending email, as well as for displaying and adding contacts, all without the need to involve page reloads.

They start off with a quick recap of the previous parts, and move quickly on to the script you'll need to accept the Ajax messages from the client (in this case, PHP). They show you how to have it add a contact to an XML file and send off the message to the server to be handled through PHP's mail() function...]]> Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:09:58 -0600